Real-Time Hospital Tracking Capacity
Tech has been a booming market for generations, and continues to be so. Healthcare while on the rise, mostly lies in the past, there lacks the proper infrastructure to move medicine into the 21st century even though it’d do numbers for not only for patient care but the overall economy.
One of the biggest market opportunities — especially for countries that have a public healthcare system, are real-time availabilities for practitioners. In essence, creating an API for live-feed updates as to whether a certain hospital or office is fully staffed and approximate waiting times that are in place. While this does exist at a rudimentary level, it really needs to be implemented nationally such that efficient and effective appointment booking can happen. This API would act as what ITA was before being bought out by Google. ITA existed as an airline inventory tracking system. Where any airline could connect and enable live updates to the platform.
In Ontario, the average wait time for a hospital can be over 4 hours long — using something like a live API to keep track of which hospitals can accommodate more patients with fewer wait times can go a long way. In most cases, if doctors do have a scheduling system, it differs between doctor to doctor, which creates a gap in the actual provider network versus the realized bookings.
With the pandemic and general convenience practises, telemedicine has exploded. This on its own has created another level of management and coordination that needs to coexist with the standard medical/practitioner offices. Developing a somewhat universal or agnostic infrastructure would enable these startups/telemedicine companies to interface appropriately with the referring practitioners to make most effective use of the given capacity.
